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21 " Does this mean my genitals are going to fall off?” asked Brenner. “Women of the world, rejoice!” said Caliban, coming back into the room. "
― T. Kingfisher , The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War #2)
22 " Great shoulders. Always has a handkerchief. Gods above, if he would just make a damn move… "
23 " Someone seemed to be drinking Caliban’s beer at a shocking rate. He wasn’t sure why, since it did not improve at all upon repeated exposure. "
24 " There is a person in this world who feels safe in my arms. It felt like grace. "
25 " I would know you anywhere. I would recognize you at the bottom of a mineshaft on a moonless night if I were deaf and blind. "
26 " We’re friends, by which he means he respects my talents and nobody’s paid him money to kill me. "
27 " I met a goddess.” “Well, these things happen,” said Slate. “Except, wait, no, they don’t. What the hell? Why’d you meet a goddess? "
28 " Didn't expect to be an avatar today myself, but that's what I get for not eating breakfast. "
29 " Caliban had a brief, vivid memory of one of the older nuns saying: “Maybe their god could use one of those arms to pull his followers’ heads out of their own asses! "
30 " Slate wiggled her bare toes at him. “I have one pair that is not more hole than sock. They are taking a well-deserved rest. They are heroes of the sock world. "
31 " The room she found herself in, when they had tied her to yet another chair and removed the sack, was larger than the last one. It was also clean, but in the fashion of a room that can be easily sluiced down to get the bloodstains off the walls. That was a happy thought. I’m so glad I had it. "
32 " What filled Caliban was not power. Power was perhaps the least useful of gifts.It was grace. "
33 " door—it had to be Caliban, nobody else had a tread like a bull moose and a knock that sounded like an apology— "
34 " But I don’t want to be the sensible one,” said the assassin plaintively. “I want to be the one who kills people and gets paid a lot of money. "
35 " Prayer is for the one who prays. It would be a monstrous arrogance to think that my prayers might sway the heart of a god. "
36 " We’re living with decisions made by people so long dead we can’t even piss on their bones. "
37 " Do you think I don’t know how to act around thieves and ruffians?” “The fact that you even use a word like ‘ruffians’ is not filling me with confidence, no. "
38 " Damn. No one ever tells me I've got a tidy mind.''It's tidier than mine,' said Brenner.'Yes,but yours is full of spiders.'The assassin looked absurdly flattered by this. "
39 " Do you ever miss?” asked Caliban.“All the time. I missed that last guy.”“You put a dagger in his eye.”“Yes, but I was aiming for the other eye. "
40 " Didn’t expect to be an avatar today myself, but that’s what I get for not eating breakfast. "